The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-02
News of the week.

An excavation Tor n pie iOr u IaliToau
bridge near Portsmouth, Ohio, caved in on
Tuesday morning, crushing six men to death.
At Valparaiso, Chill, up to May 2lst, there
had been 800 cases of cholera and 62S deaths.
In Quillota there had been 1859 cases and
1902 deaths.
II is in contemplation by the Japanese
Government to contract with French build
ers for seventeen torpedo boats at a cost of
g, 800, 900 francs.
William U. Bucklew, Assistant Postmaster
at Coshocton, Ohio, was arrested on Satur-
day on the charge of being short 5000 in his
accounts with the Government.
Freeman Clark, ex- Representative in Con-
gress and Comptroller of the Currency under
President Lincoln, died last Friday in Ro-
chester, New York, aged 7Syears.
It is reported that the people of Fairview,
Greenville county, South Carolina, are arm
ing and organizing in view of the formation
of secret labor societies among the negroes.
General James, Speed, prominent Repub-
lican politician of Kentucky, and who was
Attorney General of the United States under
President Lincoln, died on Saturday in his
10th year.
A fight occurred in the Choctaw Nation,
Indian Territory, on Sunday, between a sher-
if posse and q gang of horse thieves, in
which two of the latter were killed and three
wounded.
Rev. DIR. ]. D. Blackwell, pastor of the
Monumental Church in Portsmouth, Virginia,
died on Sunday after short illness in the Goth
year of his age. He was very prominent in
the Southern Methodist Church.
A fire in Louisville, Kentucky, early on
Saturday morning, destroyed two acres of
buildings, covering the square between Main
and Market and Ninth and Tenth streets,
causing loss estimated at S500,000.
A temporary floor under the Concordia
Church, at Brockport, New York, gave way
during service on Sunday, precipitating a
large number Of persons into the cellar.
About twenty persons were injured, one per-
haps MORALLY.
Two sections of a freight train on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad collided at Barracks
vile, West Virginia, early Monday morning
Twelve cars were wrecked, and four ears full
of cattle were nearly all killed. John Jen-
nings, engineer, was killed, and another train
hand was severely injured.
Near Longview, Texas, one day last week
Frank Mcintyre, colored, aged l6 years, was
carelessly handling his gun, when it went off,
and the load blew off half the head of an in
FAINT sister in her mothers lap, and wounded
the mother in the breast. The youth father
had died suddenly the day before.
1t is reported from Troy, New York, that
citizen of Glen's Falls claims to have discov-
cred a mountain of coal in Warren county,
in the vicinity of the North Creek. He has
taken to Glen's Falls several pieces, one as
large as nail key. The coal is smooth and
bright and makes splendid fuel.
Three men, Morgan, Hanley and Harring-
ton, have been arrested at Alpena, Michigan,
on suspicion of being three of the four rob-
bers who rescued McMunn. at Ravenna,
Ohio. a short time ago, from two officers, and
killed one of them in doing so. $4,000 re-
ward was offered for the capture of the gang.
The Grand Jury of Berks county, at Read
lug, Pa, on Saturday, returned indictments
against eleven tax collectors, all prominent
citizens, for Incorporating and misusing
public funds, ranging in amount from $500 to
$4,000, and aggregating nearly $50, 900,
About thirty others will, in all probability,
be indicted.
A fire broke out last Friday evening in the
Gould and Curry mine at Virginia, Nevada,
and some of the men at work in that mine
and in the Best and Belcher mine were i'm
prisoned by the flames. Five dead miners
have been taken out, and nine others remain
imprisoned. The fire was extinguished on
Saturday noon.
William Patton on Monday swan from
Oak Point to the Battery at New York, a
distance of II miles, on a wager of 5000 that
he could not cover the distance within three
hours. He had strong ebb tide with him
all the way. and his time was 3 hours and As
minutes. He used no grease on his body,
and was not much fatigued by his effort.
The Augustana Synod of the Lutheran
Church in North America, in session at
Chicago, has adopted a resolution warning
the members of that church against joining or
in any wise supporting such associations, of
whatsoever name, which Cypress their men,
bers by regulations prescribing the conditions
under which they shall work, buy or sell.
A brick block in Jacksonville, Florida, oc.
cupied by Clark 4 Lotus, furniture dealers;
I Watson Il Co., druggists, and Sable Brothers,
dealers in leather, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday morning. The loss is $4,000; in
surance, $4,000 Six persons were injured
by falling walls, and three others who were in
the building are missing and believed to be
killed
The Moro county marble quarry, sixty
miles from Carson, Nevada, is reported to
have been completely destroyed by the recent
earthquake, the marble having been broken
into cubes not over foot square. The ledge
was over five miles long and 400 feet wide,
containing fine grade of marble, ranging in
shade from pure white to black. The quarry
was valued at 81 100000.
Twenty inmates of a boarding house in
Chicago were chloroformed and robbed one
night last week. The robbers entered the
rooms by means of pinchers and false keys,
and, after chloroforming the sleepers, robbed
them. The victims were mostly street-car
drivers and conductors, and few of them
awoke in time the next morning. Several
hundred dollars were secured by the robbers.
Mrs. Langtry, the English actress, has
taken house in San Francisco, for the pur-
pose of making that city her legal residence
Tuesday she took out papers declaring her
intention to become citizen of the United
States. A San Francisco paper prints an in
terview with her attorney, in which he is
quoted as saying that she will begin suit for
divorce after the lapse of six months, the
period necessary to acquire legal residence.
c. B. Carter, Thomas NJ. Kelton and
three other prisoners killed the deputy sheriff
and escaped from the Jail at Mount Vernon,
Missouri, at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning.
A reward of $400 has been offered for Car
ter's arrest He was saloon keeper at
Mount Vernon and was convicted of murder
in the first degree, and sentenced to be hang
ed at Mount Vernon next Friday. He had
killed Robert Crockett, an old citizen active
in reporting violations of the liquor laws.
Gnlectnr Cutler, al Niagara Falls and Sus.
pension Bridge, New York, has notified the
employers of about 200 Canadian laborers
who come over to the American side to work
every day, that if they continue to employ
SUCH foreign labor after July LIST, the U. s.
District Attorney will be advised to proceed
against them under the law. 1t is said this
action has created no little displeasure In
official circles at Ottawa. Canada, where 1t Is
regarded as an unfriendly act on the part of
tho United States.
In Jacksonville, Indiana, on Sunday night,
Sarah L. Aldridge, aged 10 years, received a
pistol shot wound in the head from which she
died on Monday morning. George Jetel,
aged %, the girls sweetheart, was alone with
her in the parlor at the time, her parents hav-
ing gone to bed. The parents, awakened by
the report Of the pistol. rushed to the parloy
and found their daughter sensaless on the
floor, with the blood pouring from her head.
Jetel says he was asleep, with his head in the
lap of the girl, when the deed occurred, and
that she committed suicide,
DR.. McGlynn spoke for two hours to the
Land and Labor League in Chicago ON Sun
day. He said, among other things, that the
Land and Labor party in New York intended